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Mint Pulao |Pudina Pulao | Pudina Rice | How to make Mint Pulao

Mint Pulao or Pudina rice is one my favorite variety rice dish. I love this dish for it’s amazing flavor and also it’s easy to make this instant rice dish. Mint flavored pulao has many variations, you can make it plain mint pulao, add veggies or add soya chunks(meal maker) to it to make it healthy. It’s a straight forward dish which uses mostly common ingredients keep at home pantry and the main hero ingredients “pudina”,or “mint leaves”

Moving to how to make pudina pulao-

Ingredients:-

For the paste-

1 cup pudina or mint leaves

1 cup coriander leaves

4 green chillies

3 tbspn chopped fresh coconut

For the Pulao-

2 green chillies slit in the middle

2 tspn ginger-garlic paste

1 cup boiled vegetables of your choice(i used carrots and beans, you can even use corn, green peas,..any veg of your choice)

2 cups basmati rice

2 medium sized onions

2 piece cinnamon

4 small cloves

2-3 green cardamom pods

1 small bay leaves

3 tbspn oil

Salt to taste

4 cups water

Method of preparation:-

First cook basmati rice seperately in a open pot or pressure cooker. I cooked basmati rice in open pot.

Method of cooking basmati rice

Click here to learn how to cook basmati rice in open pot. Keep the cooked rice aside.

Pick the mint and coriander leaves, wash them thoroughly and in a blender, put all the ingredients called for paste and blend it into a fine paste.Add 1-2 tspn water if required while grinding them to fine paste.

Steam chopped veggies until it 3/4th cooked. I steamed them in pressure cooker for until 1 whistle. Steaming helps the veggies retain it’s vibrant color. Keep them aside.

In a kadai, heat oil, to hot oil add all the whole spices(cinnamon, cloves, cardamon, bay leaves) and fry for a minute.